3 Indian cos to bid for Male airport

New Delhi: Two leading private airport operators and the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), that has been keen to be a big player in airport development field, on Sunday will bid to build a $360-million airport in Maldives' capital Male. The GMR-Malaysia Airports; GVK-Flughafen Zurich AG (that runs Zurich airport) and Reliance Infrastructure-Mexico Airports Aeropuertos y Servicios Auxillaries consortias will have Aeroports de Paris and Vienna Airport as the foreign competition.
According to sources, the real fight will be between the three Indian companies and Aeroports de Paris that has tied up with Turkish company TAV. The financial bids will be opened next Thursday. The Maldives government has invited bids to build a new terminal that has a capacity of handling five million passengers annually and 12 aircraft parking bays. This capacity has to be built by 2014.
19/06/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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